THE €30m being put into “shovel ready” school projects is a derisory attempt at job creation.

THE recent march in Cork to legalise cannabis for medical purposes was well-attended and covered by the mass media.

I CONCUR with Minister Pat Rabbitte’s sentiment that RTÉ programming is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

WITH recent controversy regarding access to codeine containing analgesics over the counter from your pharmacy, this “Why all the questions...” has come to the fore again.

YOUR Alcohol and Ireland supplement, and follow-up booklet, provided much-needed core reading about most issues arising from the use of the substance.

THE acquittal this week of two barmen on a charge of manslaughter provides a stark, later-day parable for a people dazed by the labyrinthine analysis of our financial meltdown.

IN Budget 2009 and again in Budget 2010 a number of austerity measures were introduced.

I NOTE the simplistic tenor to Richard Bruton’s argument that “you cannot be writing off one person’s debt and expecting another person to pay their debt”.

CAN Richard Bruton have any idea of how incendiary his remarks are in view of the billions all but extorted out of the Irish people to repay recidivist banks, developers and bondholders?